There's an enormous sunspot on the Sun right now. It's about 125k miles from end to end... it's fucking big! It is also blasting out major flares, one of which will hit the planet tomorrow night causing the aurora borealis to be seen, likely, as far south as Alabama.
So I decided to check out the spot, today, using some binocs(made some new solar filters for my ED binocs last month). Out back of my place is a nice garden with a gazebo. Thought that it would be the perfect place(I also wanted to give the 8x42s I recently got a good thorough workout). I get out there and there's a bunch old geezers and geezettes blasting out Fleetwood Mac and smoking weed. Hell, I'm old, but these fuckers were old old... like 70s and 80s old. Just partying their asses off.
I didn't partake(don't smoke that shit), but I did make some new friends.
edit: check this out. Starting at about 2300(7:00pm) Friday night, then at about 11:00pm shit gets real. This has the potential to be a historic event(not end-of-the-world shit, but some disruptions of communications/satellites.